polishing-branch SKILL.md skillA
polishing-branch from tkhq/tk is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tkhq/tk/polishing-branch@git:20261015.483c273Pins git:20261015.483c273 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tkhq/tk
- Path
.agents/skills/polishing-branch/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261015.483c273, committed Oct 15, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 13, 2026
- Size
- 1,740 bytes
- Repository stars
- 62
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when a tk branch is finished and should be brought to review quality end to end, or when asked to "polish", "finish", or "get this ready" with no narrower instruction. Runs the conformance and refactoring skills in alternation over Rust code, docs, skills, and help text.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Polishing a Branch ## Overview Alternate `conforming-to-agents-md` and `refactoring-iteratively` until one full cycle of both reports no changes. Both cover the branch's Rust code, `docs/`, `skills/`, `README.md`, and help text; a branch that changes only prose still runs the full loop. Refactors can introduce rule violations, and conformance fixes can expose refactors, so neither skill alone reaches a fixed point. ## The loop Track cycles in `<scratchpad>/polish/cycles.md`. Every cycle: 1. Invoke `conforming-to-agents-md` with the Skill tool and follow it to its final report. Record its `Changes applied: N` line. 2. Invoke `refactoring-iteratively` with the Skill tool, no argument, and follow it to its final report. Record its `Changes applied: N` line. 3. If both lines read `Changes applied: 0`, stop. Otherwise start the next cycle. 4. If cycle 3 still applied changes, run cycle 4. After cycle 4, stop regardless and report which skill was still making changes. Each invocation runs the full skill, including fresh reviewer sweeps. Do not skip a skill because the previous cycle's run of it was clean; that is what the stop condition in step 3 checks. ## Report …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tkhq/tk/polishing-branch@sha256:c1e0993318264bc8The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261015.483c273, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_jtzso4rcp3joegj2)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 13, 2026 and Oct 15, 2026, about one every 32 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261015.483c273 latest | 2026-10-15 | 483c273 | 1,740 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260913.b3aaa6a | 2026-09-13 | b3aaa6a | 1,467 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (1740 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
tkhq/tk · 62 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jtzso4rcp3joegj2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tkhq/tk/polishing-branch GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c1e0993318264bc866257b479e0bcab4329ac1f83a6acd155e2963628c013cf4
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.